Sunday, August 31, 2008

30 ’Av 5768: Ro’sh Ḥodhesh/Love Litigating Lawyers Day

Greetings.

Worthy cause of the day:

Relevant to Divine Misconceptions: “Museum defies pope over crucified frog”: Summary: An art museum in Italy has a sculpture of a crucified frog on exhibit; the Pope wants it gone, and the museum does not care what the Pope thinks. I understand well why the Pope does not like the crucified frog sculpture, since it smacks of trivialization of the crucifixion of Jesus. What I do not understand is how the sculpture is supposed to illustrate “human angst” or why something that stupid is supposedly worthy of being deemed “art”. Also, kudos to the Catholics for their civil behavior in this situation. (As opposed to Muslims, whose response to offensive “art” is to riot and kill a few people.)

Today’s news and commentary:

“McCain's Veep Pick Palin: Open ANWR to Drilling” and “McCain’s VP Choice Prefers the Dark Ages”, not to mention the Wikipedia article on Sarah Palin (Though not the worst possible person for the job, there are some rather disturbing things about her, such as her being a creationist who wants creationism taught in public schools, having anti-science views, being under investigation for ethics violations, opposing abortion in the case of rape and incest, being for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and having little regard for endangered species. This stratagem is not doing anything to reverse my plans to vote against the Republicans in November.)